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Possible new PlayStation Portal model pays homage to the Vita's OLED

While much of the focus on PlayStation's next steps is the PS6 and PS6 Portable , the two-year old PlayStation Portal could be getting a revamp according to those pesky internet rumours.  Update : Hints at pricing are around £/$250-299 for the new model, but everything remains deeply in rumours territory. Presumably to hit the 10% (currently 7%-ish) adoption rate among PS5 owners that would make it a bone fide hit gadget.   As the improvement in connectivity and streaming tech, proven by many gamers enjoying their PS5 or PlayStation Plus streamed content from around the world, an updated Portal Pro could be on the cards.  Possibly featuring a 120Hz display and an OLED screen in honour of the mighty Vita, that'd be cool. Assuming the 120HZ streaming is solid, an OLED would be the more welcome addition, especially with the latest generation of technology offering QD-OLED (Quantum Dot-OLED), WOLED (White-OLED) and other buzzy titles for smarter display.  Whatever ...

Evercade announces Giga Carts for bigger collections

Evercade's recent road map reveal for 2024 was pretty much a blank slate, and with a slightly down-on-the-numbers look compared to previous years. One thing that will be bigger is the size of the games.  That's as the brand has figured out how to bring larger more-modern, disc-based, retro games our way, primarily from the PlayStation, and perhaps GameCube, PSP and/or Dreamcast formats.

Update: and the first one is officially confirmed as the Tomb Raider 1-3 collection from the 32-bit PlayStation. 


The company release says “Giga Cart is a new type of cartridge we are making that is designed specifically for larger and more modern retro games, mostly originally released on CD. This new cartridge type will be identical in size and shape to your existing carts but will internally have a larger capacity to bring you these more demanding titles."

Two Giga Cart collections are promised for 2024, with presumably plenty more to come, now that it has the power to negotiate for larger titles. 

To cope with the production cost increase, Giga Cart Evercade cartridges will have an RRP of £22.49/$24.99/€24.99. Buyers can identify a Giga Cart by the new logo, which presumably is compatible with all versions of the Evercade hardware. 

Most of the more recent games have been among the smaller end of the PlayStation roster. Recent release 40 Winks on Piko Collection 3 was around a 330MB ISO file. But now there's plenty of reason to expect more multimedia-heavy titles as well as those from the larger end of the retro-cart-based machine library. 

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